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The Confessions of Kofi Annan

A cautionary tale about the fragility of moral prestige

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

by Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh


What the New President Should Consider

How to achieve lasting financial and fiscal reform

Luscious, Delicate, Muscular Bellows

A painter whose subject is an exuberance in being alive

George Bellows

an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 10–October 8, 2012; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, November 14, 2012–February 18, 2013; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 16–June 9, 2013


Does This Writer Deserve the Prize?

Red Sorghum

by Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt

The Garlic Ballads

by Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt

Big Breasts and Wide Hips

by Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

by Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt


The Great Actor Who Hated Acting

The diaries of Richard Burton

The Richard Burton Diaries

edited by Chris Williams


The Jihadis of Yemen

The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia

by Gregory D. Johnsen

High-Value Target: Countering Al Qaeda in Yemen

by Edmund J. Hull


The Taste for Being Moral

How do we combine the external descriptive view of ourselves provided by empirical science with the active internal engagement of real life?

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

Dignity: Its History and Meaning

by Michael Rosen


A Magnificent and Audacious Swindle

A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States

by Geoffrey C. Ward


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